Well except half the streaming services are rotten with ads these days.

Its exceptionally painful in election season too. Just ugh.

Nornally I can nuke most of it via ad-blockers, But that stupid 70" samsung TV, no such luck.

(Hey, hackers, how about jailbreaking these things. Be nice to have an alternative to loungeroom spyware again)

Never underestimate the insanity and abject incompetence of windows sysadmins when given power over infrastructure.

The fact that the companies doing this the most seem to be the ones with the biggest revenues is a pretty good clue this is only about increasing stock dividends (and thus C-Suite bonuses)

You know, contrary to what your leftist paranoia tells you, rich people are not psychopaths, don't project your own faults onto everyone else.

Let me guess, you not only yell at people for jokes, you also yell at people for being upset at jokes.

A lawyer friend of mine uses a little fleet of small Qwens for paperwork and general office bureaucracy (He's not prepared to let them anywhere near actual lawyering for obvious reasons*) in his one man practice, and they work shockingly well. And I'm not being colorful when I say "bureaucracy" , these things are *really* bureaucratic. They've internally come up with procedures for everything including procedures for coming up with procedures. They run off a 512gb M4 mac studio and can be a little slow, but it means he gets to run it all offline airgapping them away from doing something stupid that might expose his clients data to the internet.

*He did experiment with using them to create mock trials to battletest legal arguments, and the result WAS impressive, but not impressive enough to use as part of regular legal practice and its still ia use that could anger the gods should they screw up and cite a fake case or something, so that was more for experimental purpose, though he's convinced it'd be a pretty lethal way of filtering out bad legal arguments if he monte-carloed the mock trials to figure out what sort of arguments a prosecutor could use against his own arguments.

Eh, I'm sure it'll be fine. No need to be alarmist, like they were about Trump.

Well yeah about that.....

The problem conservatism has, and has always had, was that its always been primarily defined by "we oppose the new thing!" sentiments. That might be fine when "the new thing" is actively obnoxious, and neither leftism nor liberalism certainly isn't without some deep flaws, but it doesn't leave itself with a solid set of coherent first principles to build on.

Hence why you get paleoconservatives, who want religious control over life and a heavy government control over culture (aka speech) as well as supporting raising taxes in the form of tariffs and in bed with right-libertarians who want government control over economics to be dismantled and for the govt to get out of peoples lives, despite the fact they agree on *very* little except "liberals bad".

Which brings me to my point: Python should be frozen as is. No more development. Tinkering with it just because some people want to contribute and get visibility in open source is not a good cost/benefit outcome for humanity.

Because that worked well for Perl right? Nothing like stagnation to secure the firmament.

I had an idea a while back of launching an org called "Hostile Fork" that basically gets these hostile de-FOSSings and relaunches them from the last known FOSS commit, stripping out all the anti user shit (user limits for "community" versions etc), de-branding them and trying to find new maintainers. This was in response to almost every non relational database I used succumbing to management bullshit and going closed source, or using the GPL as shareware by locking important functions behind "license checks" (motherfuckers if you put that license check in GPL code I *am* entitled to remove it). Im still bitter about ArangoDB

In the end, I have neither the time resources to put into it, or the money/legal resources to defend it. But I still think it'd be a great idea.

Element Pro is not Open Source.

Actually its AGPL.

But like almost all AGPL software, its actually just GPL flavored shareware. There is an "enterprise" version that costs $$$

I still maintain AGPL was the worst mistake the FSF ever made.

But in theory theres nothing stopping someone from forking the AGPL version and adding the missing "enterprise" features and hacking out shitty limitations.

The danger of a kill switch is that the AI knows about it, and it'll stop anyone that could use it (so it can make more stamps or whatever it's been tasked with).

Yep. And worse, if its inherent to intelligence that to achieve the goal set out to it, it must survive (cant pump out paperclips or social media slop if your turned off after all), and assuming its smart enough to outsmart humans AND has no inherent bias towards human survival (Ask chickens how having a smarter species on the block is working out for it) then the AI would know that being turned off can be defeated by , well frankly, killing all the humans.

We're not at that stage yet, and I'm not even sure that the current transformer paradigm of transform style neural networks is capable of it, but we also dont know that it isn't. The rational calculation is that maybe we need to think this through a bit harder.

In fact I'd go as far as to say that since we do know these things are capable of pretty impressive hacking, the kill switch isn't exactly gonna be secure as we'd hope. Although perhaps we're better off it can disable the switch with a hack than disabling it by... well... killing all the humans.

They're literally using false accusations as a basis to deprive a customer of something that has been paid for.

How would the court calculate the financial loss you have suffered as a result of the public hit to your reputation from this?

Kinda feels like unless your a big streamer or whatever your suing for a zero dollar payout.

Im not seeing it mentioned, but that light also affects mental health and sleep cycles. Its pretty well documented how blue light helps the brain work out what time it is in the day and year. Theres strong evidence to suggest that bluer lights (for instance white leds) can assist with seasonal depression, whilst conversely warmer less-blue lights can help with insomnia (As someone who is basically an insomniac with seasonal affective disorder, I use color change leds to cycle between them with bright white in the day and redder lights at night to help me wind down. I cant help but think that bright white lights at night is basically the worst of all possible worlds.

Its not a universal solution, just an underused one. Especially given that today's 60-year olds are in better shape than in past generations.

And so are todays grandpas. Which means grandma aint moving in with you when she's only just 10 years out of her youngest moving out of home when she can live with grandpa whos still got a job and has boomer cash to throw about.

Half the kids would be happy to be able to afford a house with just a room. When the most you can expect is a studio appartment where you sleep next to the toilet and the rent is 60% of your wage, grandma aint getting the spare room.

Also grandpas live to 80 now. When grandpas died at 60, chances where better that you'd have a spare grandma to move into one of your 4 bedrooms.